Ways to Help Your Child Predict
Predicting what might happen helps your child develop scientific thinking. You have many
opportunities to do this throughout the day.
Try these question as you talk, play, and read
with your children:
What do you think will happen next?
What do you think would happen if . . . ?
What did you ask your children
to predict?
. . . we left food on the counter all day?
. . . it rains and we were planning
to go to the park today?
. . . our telephone doesn’t work for a
whole day?
. . . you bounce a ball gently?
you bounce a ball with a lot of force?
Favorites Game:
What is our family’s favorite ice cream flavor?
(or movie, or activity, or sport)
Ask your child to predict the answer. Then have
your child ask each family member and write or
drawthe responses. Count each response to see if
the prediction was correct.
Reading Together:
Stop and ask what the child thinks might happen next.
Ask your child—what would you do if . . .
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